James Turrell - Extraordinary ideas – Realized - English Edition - 2015

James Turrell: Extraordinary Ideas – Realized / Zumtobel Group Annual Report 2014/2015 - Dornbirn, Zumtobel Group AG, 2015 – 191 + 31 pages – Two parts, hardcover in slipcase – English edition - 30.5 x 25 cm.

- The first part [191 pages] covers Turrell’s volume ‘Extraordinary Ideas-Realized’, which features important installations by the artist from various periods of his oeuvre. An extensive photographic documentation of Turrell’s installations is accompanied by essays and dialogues with experts from the fields of astronomy, physics, art history, and medicine. As well as demonstrating the diversity and depth of James Turrell’s work, the Zumtobel Group Annual Report is the first to feature images of his Skyspaces in Japan and Tasmania and includes previously unpublished material on his earlier works.

The second part [31 pages] is a separate Annual Report 2014/2015 by the Zumtobel Group, detailing the company's annual figures and finances for its stakeholders.

Many of Turrell’s projects were realized with support from this company, a German-based manufacturer of luminaires, lighting solutions, and lighting components.

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James Turrell (born 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the 'master of light,' often creating art installations that blend natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings, thereby transforming interior spaces with constantly shifting and changing colors. Many of his works were developed in his studio in Venice, California. Turrell had his first solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1967. Since then, solo exhibitions have included the Stedelijk Museum (1976), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1980), Israel Museum (1982), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1984), MAK, Vienna (1998–1999), and Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2002–2003).

Main works/ projects are:

- The Roden Crater Project, starting in the 1970s, extended his studio works into the landscape of an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert, whose crater was transformed into a work of art and celestial observation. Roden Crater is considered his masterpiece and a work still in progress.

Skyspace, which began in the 1970s, was essentially a space with seats along the walls and a large aperture in the roof. Today, there are 75 open-air public sites in museums across North America, Asia, and Europe.

Project Ganzfeld, from 1991 onwards, is a German word used to describe the phenomenon of total loss of depth perception caused by controlled light exposure.

*** Key words: Land Art - Conceptual Art ***